To:THEODORE ROTHSTEIN

Written:Written on August 13, 1921Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 53.

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      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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DearComrade Rothstein:

Ireceived your letter of 17/VII only yesterday.

Iseem to be in full agreement with your circumspect
policy in Persia. I have not heard the “other side”, but I do
not think that your main considerations could be refuted.

Whydon’t you write a work on Persia, to give us all achance to make a study of such an interesting subject,
which is so obscure for all of us?

Itis extremely important to elaborate alineof work
in the East.

Iwrite no more, as you will know the news from the
newspapers, I am now on holiday: I have overworked and
am taking a cure.

Ihope that Belgov has already reached you.

Withhim I wrote you about Alexander Alexandrovich
and Varvara Alexandrovna Armand, who went with him, and
about whom I am very anxious. I hope that they will prove
to be useful in Persia, and that you will be able to
devote some little time to them.

Mybest regards and wishes.